| Sanguisorba officinalis L. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Sanguiserba microcephala Presl, Sanguiserba officinalis subsp. microcephala (Presl) Calder & Taylor. | ||
| Description | Stems from thick, many-headed caudex; basal leaves pinnate, with glabrous, ovate to oblong, crenate-serrate, sessile or stipitate leaflets; stem tall, finely pubes- cent at base, with 1-2 reduced leaves; spikes ovoid to broadly cylindrical, 1-2 e¢m long, purplish-black; filaments filiform, included or barely exserted. ~ | ||
| Ecology | Moist places. Described from Europe. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Range of var. polygama (Nyl.) Mela & Caj. (S. polygama Nyl.) is included on circumpolar map. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.